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Twins or Strangers? Differences and Similarities between Industrial and Academic Science
Stephan, Paula E.; Sauermann, Henry - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Some scholars view academic and industrial science as qualitatively different knowledge production regimes. Others claim that the two sectors are increasingly similar. Large-scale empirical evidence regarding similarities and differences, however, has been missing. Drawing on prior work on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624626
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Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires
Agrawal, Ajay K.; Singh, Jasjit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
-move patents. Specifically, we employ a difference-in-differences approach to compare pre-move versus post-move citation rates for … the recruits' prior patents and the corresponding matched-pair control patents. Our methodology has three benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628413
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Negotiating for the Market
Gans, Joshua S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In a dynamic environment where underlying competition is "for the market," this paper examines what happens when entrants and incumbents can instead negotiate for the market. For instance, this might arise when an entrant innovator can choose to license to or be acquired by an incumbent firm;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950674
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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more … engineering). Star scientists publication as or with firm employees, SBIR grants received, and citation-weighted patents and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950753
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Leaders and Followers: Perspectives on the Nordic Model and the Economics of Innovation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper is an exercise in comparative institutional analysis, asking what kinds of arrangements most facilitate innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may be particularly conducive to innovation, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950953
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The Acquisition and Commercialization of Invention in American Manufacturing: Incidence and Impact
Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Walsh, John P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Recent accounts suggest the development and commercialization of invention has become more "open." Greater division of labor between inventors and innovators can enhance social welfare through gains from trade and greater economies of specialization. Moreover, this extensive reliance upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951285
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Intellectual Property Rights, the Pool of Knowledge, and Innovation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which innovators can draw. Both of these are endogenous: Investments in innovations are affected by the pool of knowledge and the ability of firms to appropriate the returns to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821990
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The Impact of Academic Patenting on the Rate, Quality, and Direction of (Public) Research Output
Azoulay, Pierre; Ding, Waverly; Stuart, Toby - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We examine the influence of faculty patenting activity on the rate, quality, and content of public research outputs in a panel dataset spanning the careers of 3,862 academic life scientists. Using inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTW) to account for the dynamics of self-selection into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774752
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Pioneers, Submariners, or Thicket-builders: Which Firms Use Continuations in Patenting?
Graham, Stuart J.H.; Hegde, Deepak; Mowery, David C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
), the Continuations-In-Part (CIP), and Divisions -- to alter the term and scope of patents. This paper analyzes patents … their frequency to the characteristics of patents, assignees and industries. We find that CIPs are disproportionately filed … by R&D-intensive, small firms that patent heavily, and are more common in chemical and biological technologies. Patents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778505
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Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry
Moser, Petra; Lampe, Ryan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Members of a patent pool agree to use a set of patents as if they were jointly owned by all members and license them as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025643